springtide

plural springtides

1. literarypoeticThe springtime.

   The hawthorn is bursting in blossom, / The flowerets flush under our feet, / All round us life's pulses are throbbing;— / Sing, birdies, the Springtide to greet!

   1883, “Springtide”, in John Linwood Pitts, editor, The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands, second series, Guernsey: Guille-Allès Library, →OCLC, page 39

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   'T is warbled by the bird / Whose springtide voice is heard; / 'T is told throughout the vale / By fragrance we inhale; / While every verdant lawn / Reveals it to the dawn.

   1895, Edward Octavus Flagg, “The Easter Song”, in Poems, second edition, and later poems, New York: Thomas Whittaker, page 236

   Fair now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding / With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun; / Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding / The green-growing acres with increase begun.

   1900, William Morris, “The Message of the March Wind”, in Poems By the Way, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., →OCLC, page 33

   Have ye no springtide, and no burst of May / In flowers and leafy trees, when solemn night / Pants with love-music, and the holy day / Breaks on the ear with songs of heavenly light?

   1953, Robert Bridges, “The Growth of Love”, in Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, 2nd edition, London: Oxford University Press, page 219

plural springtides

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of spring tide.

   I could not help remarking that it seemed to me to be a very poor time to think of grounding the ships. We were coming up to the neap, or low, tide of the fortnight. Would it not be better, I asked, to wait for the springtide? Gordon nodded but did not seem concerned.

   1969, Delbert A. Young, Last Voyage of the Unicorn, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., →OCLC, page 93

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   [the Moon's] influence presses on the Earth's atmosphere and seas and the amount betwixt her attraction and her pressure accounts for the difference in the springtide at her full, (as compared with that of her change,) which is effected by the Earth's induction without the pressure of the Moon.

   1859, William Gall, An essay on the Origin, Organisation, and Decomposition of the Solar System, Aberdeen: W. Bennett, →OCLC, page 44

   At springtide the sun and moon, in conjunction or opposition, are on the meridian at noon and midnight, and it is to be expected that the mean time of high water then would be at noon or midnight, or thereabouts, but instead of this the tide then is at high water at 6.15.

   1886, Charles Bland Radcliffe, A New Departure in Science, 2nd edition, London: Macmillan, →OCLC, pages 6–7

   The highest value of K = 3.72 was obtained for neap tidal flow through the Town Creek cross section. The lowest values, K = 1.45 and 1.83, were obtained for Jones Creek and Town Creek, respectively, when the North Inlet tidal prism was augmented by flow from Winyah Bay during mean tide and springtide.

   1976, Robert J. Finley, Hydraulics and Dynamics of North Inlet, South Carolina, 1974-75, Defense Technical Information Center, →OCLC, DTIC ADA033419, page 120